#“homosexuality be damned my apprentice knows how to kill”

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cancer-free, upstanding citizen john kramer be like "wow the company of a straight person sounds great right now!"

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It's Obikin time! Let's celebrate our favourite ship! Reply with a random headcanon, a fic or art rec, or just why you love Obikin! Feel free to tag people!

woah, ok. first of all? i can’t tell you how happy i am of being active enough on this fandom to deserve this ask. seriously. so. damn. happy. because of this reason i’ve been thinking really hard about how to answer this. i thought… maybe i could just rec things but most of my brethren and sistren have already done that with almost the same fics i would have recced, so i decided to do something a little different and go with a headcanon instead. this is promptly followed by another-fic-that-will-never-exists-because-i-lack-the-drive, sorry. i know you’ve read enough of those from me

anyway, it is my little headcanon  that obi-wan was never meant to have qui-gon as his master but xanatos and that’s the one reason he almost went rejected by the jedi order and no trained, because xanatos wasn’t there to see him and pick him

so, of course I want this to automatically give me an obikin but to this day I can’t decide how I want it to go. I mean, I could have xanatos never fall and take obi-wan as his padawan.  in this verse obi-wan grows up well loved and happy, he’s picked when he’s like 8 or 9, chosen, you know, which makes a huge difference for his self-value, specially with his master taking pride on his disciple’s skills, he also becomes a knight a a little before the naboo crisis. here, anakin is found very much like in the movies but as qui-gon has no padawan to speak of, the order sends xanatos, another random master or maybe even obi-wan in his first mission as a knight along with him. i think Anakin ends as padawan of qui-gon  (if he survives), this other master’s who went with him,  to xanatos himself as the promise would had been made by him instead of obi-wan or still to xanatos as he wouldn’t allow this promise to fall upon the shoulders of his young and freshly knighted former padawan. the torrid homosexual romance between anakin and obi-wan would start a year or two into the clone wars because they may have not been master-padawan here but they would still work flawless together, both of them having still grow up in relatively close quarters thanks to  anakin being a sort of little brother to xanatos or plain his new padawan. i’d like to talk a lot more about this, like how anakin has a few solo and joint missions with other fellow jedis under the belt already when he gets paired up with obi-wan and they perform so amazingly together they are paired for the foreseen future or how they usually cuddle around each other every night since they had to share a cot for a month or two while on some planet or about how their first kiss probably tastes like blood and smoke and desperation because i’ll die before giving them their so well deserved break but let’s go on to the next setting instead.

the second option is… well, it wouldn’t be a sith!obi-wan au per se. more like a dark jedi!obi-wan. here obi-wan is 13yo, angry and on a ship to bandomeer with qui-gon when xanatos meets him. let’s say xanatos decides to listen to the force instead of picking a fight against his former jedi master because of reasons, so he takes the child with the angry issues away and trains him. things on this verse ain’t half as happy as in the first one. xanatos is angry himself and also selfish and even if obi-wan becomes in time in the one thing he prides himself of, he still trains the kid to be his apprentice first and anything else second. basically by the time obi-wan hits 25, he’s an assassin and a mercenary and a thief who collects sith lore for fun and has even been to… i don’t know, zigoola or korriban just because xanatos ordered him not to at some point, probably (srly, he was an angry child and an even angrier teenager). the reason he meets anakin is because he’s following the sith apprentice, trying to uncover sidius’s identity. i think anakin and obi-wan bond a little bit and obi-wan is playing with the idea of taking the child and his mother with him back home when qui-gon shows himself and… well, anakin goes to the jedi instead. i think obi-wan ends aligning himself to the sith because he wants to know more about the line of bane and xanatos ends coming along while spiting fire. they are taken by dooku and just like this, anakin and obi-wan end meeting several times as anakin grows up and as xanatos and qui-gon and dooku hunt each other all around the galaxy.  then, sidius makes a terrible life choice and something ends killing xanatos and qui-gon both. anakin is ahsoka’s master already by the time he leaves the jedi and joins obi-wan to hunt sidious down and avenge his master but he has already sleept with obi-wan once or twice by this point. really, i could talk a lot about this idea too, mainly because things are so different here. i mean, their first kiss on the previous setting is full of angst and tragic as hell, here is… angry and full of want and lust and this au is about anakin also falling to the dark side but never to become a sith lord, just to live in communion with the force and in sin with obi-wan